Nutrition plays an integral role in optimising the performance of elite players and maintaining their health.
Vegetarian diets are becoming more and more common in the sporting arena, athletes choose this type of diet for a variety of reasons including health, environment, ethics, philosophy, religion/spirituality and aesthetics. There are different types of vegetarian diets: Is it possible to cover the energy requirements of football with a vegetarian diet? Vegetarian diets are
In high-level sport there is increasingly equal participation of women in most disciplines, however, at the scientific level most studies still use men as participants in sports performance research and there is much less evidence on women’s exercise physiology. This is a major problem, as physiological differences between the two genders mean that the evidence
NUTRITIONAL STRATEGIES DURING COMPETITION Los objetivos nutricionales durante esta etapa se enumeran a continuación: Carbohydrate intake in its simplest form El aporte de carbohidratos durante una competición tiene la finalidad de suministrar energía rápida al torrente sanguíneo a fin de disminuir la velocidad de consumo de las reservas (glucógeno), favoreciendo así su duración y previniendo
At SIA we know the importance of nutrition in sports performance, which is why our project has focused on the nutritional education of our players in order to provide them with the necessary tools to encourage the voluntary adoption of healthy eating behaviours that contribute to their sporting career. Likewise, we work to attend to
It has been shown that during exercise the body obtains the energy it needs from 2 main nutrients: fats and carbohydrates. The proportion used of each will depend on the following factors: Exercise intensity. Duration of exercise. Pre-exercise carbohydrate stores. Training level of the player. Thus, it is observed that carbohydrates are the fuel used
SIA Academy trains its players and their families in nutrition and psychology. During the month of November, the SIA Academy held a series of informative talks for players and their families. These talks focused on important topics such as nutrition and psychology to help families in their day-to-day lives. These events took place at both
IMPLICATIONS OF PROTEIN CONSUMPTION BEFORE BEDTIME The importance of protein consumption in generating adaptive muscle responses to training is widely known in the sports field. For this reason, many studies have been devoted to answering the questions that arise in this relationship between protein intake/maximal rates of protein synthesis: what type of protein is best?
SHOULD FOOTBALL PLAYERS TAKE SPORTS SUPPLEMENTS? Nowadays, to help meet the nutritional demands related to sport, “ergogenic nutritional aids” or also known as “nutritional supplements” are becoming more and more prominent. What is a food supplement? A supplement is defined as a product created for consumption that contains a ‘dietary ingredient’ designed to add additional
